Her love began ten years ago and endures still

They call me "the expert in matrimonial affairs," and the reason for it goes back to the success of my married life with Humphrey Bogart. As if understanding depended on one of the two parties alone! When love hovers over a marriage and both partners consent to give up some of their demands, living together cannot but yield the best results.

When I married Humphrey in 1945, the newspapers of that day set about calling me a fool — especially as Humphrey had already been married three times, and I was the fourth. That happened ten years ago.

Today those same papers look upon us with admiration and respect, saying: despite the great difference in age ("and here I must make clear that

my husband is twenty-five years older than I am"), they are absolutely the happiest married couple in the artistic world!

The greatest credit for this harmony belongs to my husband, and that is for his choosing me as his life's partner. For I am a woman of many faults: I am selfish and quick-tempered. He has borne with me patiently from the very beginning, and had I married a young man of my own age, I do not doubt for a moment that he would have returned me to my mother on the second day! But to Humphrey my faults are endearing — and that only because, as he puts it, I understand his faults and accept them.

I am not exaggerating when I keep saying that we live in a paradise of our own making, composed of our beautiful

In one of her films — where they became acquainted..